Philippines use Ubuntu-based voting machines in recent election

Yesterdays election in the Philippines was notable for several reasons â€” not least of which was the introduction of a new electronic voting system in which Ubuntu has played a vital â€” but invisible â€” role managing the Linux-based ROMs that do the actual counting.

Sadly the introduction of computerized vote counting was marred by repeated machine failures and large-scale errors, the most prominent of which resulted in the Presidential front-runner Benigo Aquino being unable to cast his vote due to a machine malfunction.

Either way the use of Ubuntu in this situation was neither the culprit or the cause but demonstrated once again the versatile deployment capabilities of Ubuntu.